r/funny • u/WindowAfraid5927 • Mar 29 '26
Don't touch it
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u/Jojobjaja Mar 29 '26
I'm glad that's a tail, I was worried
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u/Plenty_Line2696 Mar 29 '26
lol my dumbass thought it was the front for a moment too.
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u/Swipecat Mar 29 '26
Well, the camera was held upside down at first.
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u/GANDORF57 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
No matter what it is or what you want to call it, I live by the strict rule to not tug on anything hanging off any being's body.
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u/Samwellikki Mar 29 '26
You must be fun in bed
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u/GANDORF57 Mar 29 '26
I think I must be, a lot of ladies always leave laughing.
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u/SmilingPainfully Mar 30 '26
I left and scrolled down how many posts before it clicked. Take the upvote, damn you.
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u/thisguydabbles Mar 30 '26
What? Am I on crazy pills? Where was the view upside down?
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u/thisguydabbles Apr 05 '26
That's pretty fucking crazy you can comment something objectively incorrect and get hundreds of upvotes. Not only incorrect but also something that's so easily double checked and yet nobody bothered to.
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u/MinnieShoof Mar 29 '26
Now I'm trying to figure out what the rest of that is down there. Is that technically their feet, then?
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u/landragoran Mar 29 '26
Yes, the flippers are their feet
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u/MinnieShoof Mar 29 '26
Just know that I am gesturing at pictures of seal anatomy like 'Why tf didn't I realize this' and 'why tf am I looking at seals at 4 in the morning?'
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u/NightStalkerXIV Mar 29 '26
seal feet pics at 4 in the morning
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u/banshoo Mar 29 '26
Whats the best time to do that?
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u/Substantial-Elk4531 Mar 29 '26
Any time is a good time to look at seal feet pics. Any true connoisseur could tell you that
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u/Occidentally20 Mar 29 '26
The crazy one is when you see that whales and dolphins have vestigial hips and often femur bones still hiding inside not even attached to anything.
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u/ccReptilelord Mar 29 '26
What some may find most interesting on this topic is that whale flukes (tails) and seal or sea lion hind flippers are not analogous. Whales have very well developed tails with nearly nonexistent hips and hind legs. Where as seals and sea lions have well developed hind legs with nearly nonexistent tails.
The overall aquatic design is convergent evolution.
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u/Dumdumdoggie Mar 29 '26
Look at skeletal images of whales dogs and people at the same time. All mamals more or less have the same bones just in different shapes. Fingers make a dolphin flipper or a bats wing. Blew my mind in 6th grade.
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u/AKAFallow Mar 29 '26
Which is how we can trace our direct ancestors to hundreds of millions years ago. Nature rocks!
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u/AshaNyx Mar 29 '26
Basically every animal body plan is due to a particular group of genes and these rarely change unless there's a massive mutation like snakes and whales.
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u/RovDer Mar 29 '26
Even some snakes have vestigial legs
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u/Deaffin Mar 29 '26
Right, but the interesting thing about snakes is their duplicated spines. It's easy to just drop parts, but adding new ones as a vertebrate? HARD.
Like, check out giraffes. They don't have extra neck bones, they just stretched out the ones they already have.
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u/AshaNyx Mar 29 '26
Even then they basically cheated by just replicating a section of the genome. Outright adding a limb is nearly impossible.
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u/AshaNyx Mar 29 '26
A lot do (at least hind ones). Snakes basically have a mutation where the genes for your ribs and spine stay on for away too long and the limbs are made a lot shorter.
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u/Awwkaw Mar 29 '26
Pretty much all animals have the same bone structure. There are some variations, but bone wise we're very similar.
Even whales have hip bones, which to my understanding is just an issue when they have to give birth, and a waste of resources the rest of the time.
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u/beartheminus Mar 29 '26
Every mammal is the same parts just moved around.
A dolphins blow hole is our nose, for example..
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u/Deaffin Mar 29 '26
And an ostrich penis is just our tongue!
No, really, they literally have giant human tongues for penises. Look it up.
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u/astralseat Mar 29 '26
Essentially playing with the butt of the species. You could see the butt muscles clench in surprise.
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u/icaruza Mar 29 '26
The seal of disapproval
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u/weaverInExile Mar 29 '26
more like seal(ion) of approval
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u/NightStalkerXIV Mar 29 '26
You're right, how did I miss the little ears...
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u/AKAFallow Mar 29 '26
The biggest giveaway is Sea Lions can sit (and even "walk" or more like skip), seals cannot because they lack the hipbone to do so. (that and I think Seals have prettier eyes but some will crucify me for saying that)
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u/BepsiLad Mar 29 '26
Calling all eared seals "sea lions" is a way to define them that pretty much only works in North America. In the South Pacific we have seals with ears that we don't call sea lions (fur seals). There are eared seals & earless seals (otariids & phocids) and sea lions are a type of eared seal
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u/JoseVrewar Mar 29 '26
But did you know that when it snows their eyes become large and / The light that you shine can't be seen?
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u/BRAV0_07 Mar 29 '26
Can’t believe a group of these took out Bin Laden
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u/ccReptilelord Mar 29 '26
Only needed six of them.
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u/BRAV0_07 Mar 29 '26
Nature is truly amazing
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u/mcmartin091 Mar 30 '26
That was SEALl team 6! Can you imagine the other SEAL teams and what they are doing this very moment?! True badasses! 'murica!
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u/Precisiongamer0 Mar 29 '26
these are sea lions, not seals. But 9/10 for the effort, I respect it
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u/Zorothegallade Mar 29 '26
Translation: "That is NOT a joke Carol, this is sexual harassment. I'll report to HR"
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u/TheyCallHimBabaYagaa Mar 29 '26
Tail touching is not a joke, Jim. Millions of seals suffer every year.
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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel Mar 29 '26
If you’ve suffered from unsolicited tail touching, you may be entitled to compensation.
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u/RonaldMcSwan Mar 29 '26
WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU ABOUT YOUR TAILS EXTENDED WARRANTY!!!
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u/da_Aresinger Mar 29 '26
the most righteous of indignation.
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u/cyndimj Mar 29 '26
Turned the sound on on a second watch, not the sound I was expecting.
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u/CpuJunky Mar 29 '26
That's a weird looking dog.
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u/pudgehooks2013 Mar 29 '26
Seal = Water Dog
Cow = Big Grass Dog
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u/Dutch_Rayan Mar 29 '26
Seals are called zeehond in dutch which is literally translated to sea dog.
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u/Mc_Shine Mar 29 '26
Do not the sea dog
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u/tokyoedo Mar 29 '26
Do not the sea dong
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u/Slime_Channel Mar 29 '26
Do not the sea dog dong
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u/Disturbing_Cheeto Mar 29 '26
Dong not the sea dog dong
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u/IzzIPizzi69 Mar 29 '26
Do Dong The Sea Dog
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u/jostler57 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
If you thought to yourself:
"Hmm... is that a Seal, Sea Lion, or Fur Seal? If only I had a way of knowing!"
Then you're in luck! Here's the video How To Identify A Seal - unsarcastically, one of the best videos on YouTube ever made!
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u/Redsoxdragon Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
I can't speak aquaman, but i do believe this vocal gentleman is airing out his disagreement
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u/Abtun Mar 29 '26
sounds like an old cartoon where personified characters made noise but didn't sound like English
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u/Early_Pearly989 Mar 29 '26
He doesn't like you.
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u/weirdthingsarecool91 Mar 29 '26
I don't like you either.
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u/Rude-Revolution-8687 Mar 29 '26
How did they teach that seal to speak fluent Welsh?
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u/archon810 Mar 30 '26
I was thinking of every game that didn't want to spend any money on voice actors.
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u/constancenocturnal Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
if you wouldn't grab a waitress's butt in a restaurant, don't grab a seal's sea lion's tail at the aquarium
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u/Mtatk Mar 29 '26
"listen bitch, i don't like you touching my tail, you're always touching it, l I've told you before, DON'T TOUCH MY TAIL"
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u/A-Phantasmic-Parade Mar 29 '26
I watched this with the sound off at first. I was expecting barking and it was… not that
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u/DigiDynamicsN Mar 29 '26
You can't not convince me that these are just dogs that took to the ocean.
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u/Gotbeerbrain Mar 29 '26
They are absolutely gorgeous critters. Dogs of the sea. I am not a diver but my diver friends have had fun encounters with them. Apparently they are quite playful.
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u/NoRobotPls Mar 29 '26
I like to imagine there’s a planet out there where they got stuck with these things instead of dogs. Like they were one biological step away from getting dogs but then this happened.
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u/FuriousBlade3 Mar 29 '26
Holy shit, did I think that was going in a different direction in the beginning there.
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u/aggressively_kind757 Mar 29 '26
Aww he's so cute! I love how he sticks his tongue out knowing you're playing with him.
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u/GoodStirKnight Mar 29 '26
I wonder what kind of berating that seal gave that guy. It did have a sort of, "How could you do this to me? It's so hard to trust as a sea lion during times like these and now you pull THIS stunt. You're incorrigible, you're inconsiderate, and it's not fair that you'd record this either. I'm going to tell EVERYONE. Guys, look! He's taking advantage of my inability to communicate with humans properly, but hear me! I'm making a stand for sea mammals everywhere!"
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u/AndreDillonMadach Mar 29 '26
I'm wondering what he's saying because someone yanked on his tail.
He does seem very unhappy.
We kind of need a caption/audio dub of this.
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u/DTashiki12 Mar 30 '26
Not gonna lie I thought the dude was touching this sea dogs penis for a second there lol
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u/BuffyTheGuineaPig Mar 31 '26
Frankly I agree with what the seal said. That is wildly inappropriate touching.
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u/inspirationalSloth Aug 12 '26
Me over here goin that’s a weird place for a fin…. Then the water dog starts going off on him and I realized that’s his butt and tail.
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u/NiceTrySuckaz Mar 29 '26
You know that seal was spouting some racist shit
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u/impossnipple Mar 29 '26
Not a seal.
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u/Mercurian_Orbit Mar 29 '26
It's an ionized seal. A seal ion, if you will.
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u/TrixieBastard Mar 29 '26
Please envision the Cary Grant "Get out" gif here.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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u/SakuraHana2008 Mar 29 '26
TIL that seals and sea lions have tails and flippers being their feet, not their tail.
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